HERO FROM THE SKY HiRO the Drone Will Change Emergency Medical Treatment “I remember thinking, ‘I can see my grandma’s house. But an ambulance can’t get out there!’” JEANETTE BEEBE 12.24.17 12:00 AM ET Shortly after five o’clock on a Sunday evening in February 2013, a severe EF4 tornado ripped through Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Winds whirling up to […]
How Drones Are Already Being Used to Help Save People
Pete Marovich / Bloomberg via Getty Images file A lifeguard-controlled drone scours for sharks at Seal Beach in Southern California. In Germany, a drone brings a defibrillator to a man on a golf course having a heart attack. And during the floods in Texas this year, drones served up flotation devices to stranded people. While […]
Drone Sales Expected to Spike This Christmas
WJTV News Jackson Mississippi features Hinds Community College Unmanned Aircraft Systems training program. By Beth Alexander Published: November 19, 2015, 6:13 pm Updated: November 20, 2015, 8:25 am Drones come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors. This year, the Consumer Technology Association expects more than 400,000 to be sold. CTA Chief Economist Shawn […]
MSU ASSURE Alliance has a new Associate Director
By: Jim Gaines Staff Writer editor@starkvilledailynews.com Friday, November 20, 2015 STARKVILLE, MS Stephen “Lux” Luxion, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has been named associate director of the Alliance for System Safety of Unmanned Aerial Systems through Research Excellence center, according to a Mississippi State University news release. The ASSURE center is based at MSU, but […]
Drone operator fined after posting flight videos on YouTube
An Australian man has been fined for breaking aviation safety regulations while flying his drone, but while he wasn’t caught in the act, the man was busted after posting videos of the flights to YouTube. by Claire Reilly An Australian man has been fined for breaking aviation regulations whilst flying his drone, after authorities […]
Attorney says FAA UAS law enforcement guidelines off target
Patrick C. Miller The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s guidelines for law enforcement to assist in identifying those flying unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in an unsafe manner or in violation of its regulations might create more problems than they solve. James Mackler, a criminal defense attorney with expertise in UAS law, said he believes law enforcement […]
Got a drone over the holidays? Be careful before flying it for a business purpose
Author: DARRELL CLAY CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Darrell Clay is a partner with Cleveland-basedWalter | Haverfield, where his practice focuses on aviation law, complex civil litigation and white collar criminal defense. He is an instrument-rated private pilot and airplane owner. The holidays were good to you. So good, in fact, that you found yourself the lucky recipient […]
CNN Gets FAA Clearance to Test Drones
Cable news net hopes to help define drone journalism rules Deborah D. McAdams WASHINGTON and ATLANTA—CNN said federal regulators have cleared it to test newsgathering with drones. According to the cable news network, it entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration to integrate unmanned aerial vehicles—colloquially known as “drones”—into […]
3D Robotics’ CEO weighs in on the future of drones
Twenty minutes with 3D Robotics’ Chris Anderson just wasn’t enough. After all, before he basically built one of the country’s biggest drone makers, he served as editor-in-chief of the storied Wired Magazine (an… unorthodox career leap to say the least). In our wide-ranging conversation, Anderson explored the route that led him from journalism to […]
The Enforcer
Have we plateaued at a new level of absurdity (maybe 10-3), with the police now acting as the enforcement arm for the FAA? Some suggest that this amounts to a huge an unfunded mandate and is apparently another misstep in a folly conga line. The authorization of deadly force in Attachment A. What has this […]